Join this free, instructor-lead beginner’s
line dancing class every Tuesday morning, 8 – 8:45 a.m., at Creekside
Community Center, 9801 Penn Ave. S., Bloomington. This class will increase balance and memory
while having fun exercising as a group to various music styles including pop,
Irish, and rhythm and country, just to name a few.
Free and open to adult men and women of ALL dancing abilities.
Join the Bloomington Human Services Division and Creekside Poetry Group in the 9th annual Poetry Contest.
Submit your poems June 1 – July 31.
Guidelines
- Participants may submit up to two poems,
- Poems must be typed,
- Poems must be original and unpublished,
- Poems may be written in either free verse or traditional forms,
- No personal contact information on the poem itself.
- A separate cover sheet must be included with poem title and author’s contact information.
- Participants must be age 50+ and/or adults with a disability.
Judges will look at such things as how the poet uses a variety of poetic devices, mastery of the poetic form being used, universality, significance of topic, and understandability of the poem.
Submit poems to Creekside Community Center, 9801 Penn Ave. S., Bloomington, MN 55431 or email HumanServices@BloomingtonMN.gov.
Questions? Call 952-563-4944 (TTY ONLY: 952-563-8740)
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Celebrate July at our patriotic lunch party, Tuesday, July 10 at 11:30 a.m.
Bob Scoggin will entertain us with a mixture of patriotic and other familiar music as a one-man band playing guitar and several other instruments at once.
Registration required by Tuesday, July 3 or until sold out. Fee based on eligibility.
For more information and/or to register: 952-563-4944 (TTY ONLY 952-563-8740) or email Reservations@BloomingtonMN.gov.
Program cosponsored by Home Instead Senior Care. Entertainment made possible by American Federation of Musicians’ Music Performance Trust Fund in New York and Twin Cities Musicians Union, Local 30-73.
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Fare For All 's next distribution date is June
20, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Creekside Community Center, 9801 Penn Ave. S.,
Bloomington.
Fare For all is a cooperative food buying
program open to anyone – no qualifications or income restrictions.
Packages of
frozen name brand meat items as well as fresh fruits and vegetables available
at great savings. Pay with cash, credit, debit or EBT/Snap.
Hot Buy of the month: 3 lbs. of
boneless beef skirt steaks (eight 6 oz. steaks per box) for $16 (compare at
$34).
Limit 1 box per household.
A Human Services volunteer assists
individuals in preparing for the naturalization test.
For more information or to register to
arrange times with the tutor, call Human Services at 952-563-4944 (TTY ONLY: 952-563-8740).
Human Services sponsored the 18th
Annual Family Fun Festival-Kite Day Saturday, May 19, at Valley
View Playfields. An estimated 2,000 people participated in the event
celebrating children. The event featured kite flying, cultural
entertainment, inflatables, interactive and educational booths. 1,000
free kites and pinwheels were distributed to youth 18 years and under.
The event is designed to bring people of all ages and cultural backgrounds together. New this year was Gaga Ball, sponsored by Park and Recreation, MN National
Wildlife Refuge butterfly kite making and interactive wildlife fun facts, and
sPark-It Art Cart fun projects for kids, Action for East African People
sponsored a henna booth and the Shoe Bus parked on 3rd Ave. offering
great shoes for little to no cost.
A highlight at the event was the Human
Rights Commission’s Children’s Immigrant Art Exhibit which is art/written words
created by children and youth as a way for them to cope with their fear and
anxiety that they and/or their immigrant parents will be deported. The
exhibit is a way for the community to understand how children/youth are
impacted and to start a conversation about immigration. The HRC partners
with Public Health, the faith community and Hennepin County Library to
facilitate the Immigration exhibits and related educational/awareness
activities.
Additional community partners and
sponsors who provided activities, volunteers and donations include: Ziegler
Power Systems, Potter’s House of Jesus Christ International, Bloomington
Optimist Club Youth Foundations, Home Depot, MN. Kite Society, Bloomington
Police Department, Bloomington Public Health, Mac Greeman Foundation/Jump N
Dunk, Mr. Kite/Craig Christensen and Leo Espinoza who was the Emcee for the
day.
Mayor Gene Winstead, Councilmember Tim Busse and School Board member
Jim Sorum also participated in the event.
Many positive comments were
received throughout the day, noting how wonderful it was to have a free fun
event for the whole family!
Bloomington Civic Plaza 952-563-8733, TTY 952-563-8740 1800 West Old Shakopee Road Bloomington, MN 55431
Creekside Community Center 952-563-4944, TTY 952-563-4933 9801 Penn Avenue South Bloomington, MN 55431
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